2012 Audi A7 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 48 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Air bags (restraint system)7 (14.6%)Official recall records for this system: 12, covering model years 2012–2021.
• Electrical system6 (12.5%)Official recall records for this system: 6, covering model years 2015–2022.
• Steering6 (12.5%)
• Speed control & accelerator5 (10.4%)
• Engine4 (8.3%)
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)4 (8.3%)

Other / uncategorized: 3 classifications (6.3%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (270 records, model years 2012–2021) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, engine and fuel system.
• Safety recalls (82 records, model years 2012–2025) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), fuel system and electrical system.
• Transport Canada recalls (74 records, model years 2012–2025) are most frequently classified under: fuel system, air bags (restraint system) and visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors).
• Manufacturer communications (18,702 records, model years 2012–2025) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, equipment & accessories and engine.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 21reports included a mileage
• 74,816average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2012 1,332 records for 2012 1,332
2. 2013 1,463 records for 2013 1,463
3. 2014 1,305 records for 2014 1,305
4. 2015 1,088 records for 2015 1,088
5. 2016 969 records for 2016 969
6. 2017 709 records for 2017 709
7. 2018 672 records for 2018 672
8. 2019 1,464 records for 2019 1,464
9. 2020 1,317 records for 2020 1,317
10. 2021 1,300 records for 2021 1,300
11. 2022 1,058 records for 2022 1,058
12. 2023 933 records for 2023 933
13. 2024 783 records for 2024 783
14. 2025 516 records for 2025 516

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 2mention a crash
• 2mention a fire

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 5
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 1,294
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 3
• Owner complaints NHTSA 30

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0135 in 8 records
• P0456 in 5 records
• P0301 in 4 records
• P0087 in 2 records
• P2440 in 1 record

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.